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The Norwegian browser maker’s chief technology officer said “Microsoft Corp.’s refusal or inability to fully support three Web standards has cost Opera users”. Chief technology officer of the Oslo-based developer said “Microsoft participated in the development of standards, even promised to implement them, but their products contain both bugs and unimplemented features that create problems for other browsers, like Opera”. Therefore, Opera Software filed a complaint with the European Union’s antitrust agency, accusing Microsoft of stifling competition by tying its Internet Explorer (IE) browser to Windows, and by hampering interoperability by not following Internet standards. The listed core standards in the complaint include Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), XHTML and Document Object Model (DOM). There are many more to be listed but they are enough. IE’s quirky support for those and other standards gives Web site designers and Web application developers fits. Developers must work around those bugs and undocumented features in IE because of IE’s high usage numbers. According to the latest data from Web metrics vendor Net Applications “IE, while off its peak market share, still accounts for more than 77% of all browsers used.” Naturally, site and Web app developers want to reach the largest audience, so if tweaks are necessary to make their work render or run properly, that’s what they do. That is the core claim that Microsoft’s lack of standards support has hurt Opera. Opera have been forced to decode the errors in IE and try to duplicate its rendering mode, so sites look good when viewed in Opera. Those efforts have not always been successful.
written by rajit
\\ tags: Opera complaint IE
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